General Counsel

🔥 29 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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ID5.io

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing • Advertising

ID5. io is a leading identity provider specializing in addressable advertising for brands, publishers, and technology partners across various media environments. The company focuses on enabling advertisers to enhance customer engagement and assisting publishers in improving audience monetization. ID5 is dedicated to providing effective, measurable, and profitable omnichannel advertising solutions while respecting privacy and data protection regulations. The company offers next-generation identity tools designed to enhance addressability in a complex advertising ecosystem. With a commitment to privacy-by-design encryption technologies, ID5 supports the transition to a cookieless world and helps advertisers achieve their advertising goals globally.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the CEO & Co-Founder and provide decision-ready advice to the CEO, founders and board • Set legal and enterprise-risk strategy and own final legal sign-off • Lead the in-house legal team and specialist outside counsel • Own commercial contract architecture across customer and partner agreements, product modules, order forms, DPAs and NDAs • Improve templates, playbooks, delegation rules and legal tooling • Advise on partnerships, investments, acquisitions, integrations and other strategic initiatives • Oversee privacy and data-protection positions across GDPR, UK GDPR, US state privacy laws, consent frameworks, controller/processor analysis, data transfers and retention • Oversee material disputes and intellectual-property exposure, including strategy, preservation, discovery and resolution • Maintain corporate governance across entities, board materials, delegated authorities, insurance and cross-border structure • Support employment, marketing and other enterprise matters requiring senior legal judgment • Develop the in-house team, manage the legal budget and outside-counsel panel, and scale the legal function through process and technology

🎯 Requirements

• Operated as the senior legal decision-maker in-house, or immediately beneath one with clear ownership of enterprise-critical matters • Comfortable advising founders, executives and boards • Strong commercial and regulatory judgment from adtech, digital identity, data infrastructure, privacy technology or a similarly complex B2B software environment • Ability to form defensible positions on novel data-protection questions or pressure-test specialists' positions • Ability to translate legal positions into practical product and contracting decisions • Proactive, collaborative business partnership with Commercial, Product, Engineering and People leaders • Ability to direct specialists and make final internal recommendations • Ability to develop lawyers, delegate intelligently, establish guardrails and improve legal-work processes • Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction • Admitted and in good standing in the US, UK or another jurisdiction appropriate to advising a UK-parented global technology group with significant US exposure • Direct adtech and identity ecosystem experience, including IAB consent frameworks, digital advertising standards, data marketplaces or data-broker regulation (nice to have) • Experience integrating an acquisition across jurisdictions, including entity governance, data integration, commercial migration and EOR/PEO employment structures (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first working policy • A competitive compensation package, including stock options in ID5 • WeWork membership and option to work from different WeWork locations • Regular offsites to enjoy face-to-face time and to bond further with your colleagues • A dynamic environment that offers room for growth and development to all employees • Friendly, international, and multicultural team • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Employees can work from different locations and time zones indefinitely • Tools and support for remote work • Regular all-hands meetings • Slack and Zoom communication tools